Please see insertions at two places below.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Sandy Schenck Speaks!
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
>> Not to argue, but I would more nearly believe the theory of a
> bizarre projection
>> of the compound curve
>
> really
> hahaha
> even after reading in the 1935 supreme court decision that the
> common arc of a common circle centered on the common
> courthouse spire is what was ordered
> yikes
> i am amazed you think so at all
> let alone in preference to anything else
> hahaha
> but i agree not to argue
What the Supremes decreed in 1935 was this [with upper-case emphasis added]:
"Within the 12-mile circle (that is, within the circle the radius of which is 12
miles, and the center of which is the building used prior to 1881 as the
courthouse at New Castle, Del., CERTAIN ARCS OF WHICH ARE HEREAFTER DESCRIBED
AND DETERMINED), the Delaware river and the subaqueous soil thereof up to mean
low-water line on the easterly or New Jersey side is adjudged to belong to the
state of Delaware..."
As we know, when they got down to describing those arcs, they extended Hodgkins
for the first one and inexplicably specified a severe under-measurement for the
second. Neither is exactly twelve miles.
> than I do the theory of reverse discrimination to
>> compensate for a past wrong.
>>
>> I'm not entirely certain that Schenck carefully read my inquiry. It
> almost
>> seems that he thought I was inquiring about the varying radii of
> DEPA. Perhaps
>> he wrote about DEPA because he didn't know much about the
> downriver arc within
>> DENJ.
>>
>> I suspect that reports of Special Masters are part of the public
> record, but
>> that they are just not on-line due to their voluminosity. I will try
> to find
>> out how available they are.
>>
>> Meanwhile, you pursue Perry.
>
> what do you mean
What I meant was simply to encourage you in the maths that you are doing on the
various wanderings of the DEPA compound curve as expounded by Perry. Our
explanation could still be found there. If the arc's lower crossing of the
Delaware was not a bizarre projection of Hodgkins, then perhaps the Special
Master did something like set the radius of that lower arc such that it plus the
radius of the arc at a point diametrically opposed to it on DEPA would total the
24 mile diameter called for in the 1682 deed of feoffment from the Duke of York
to William Penn. (Is this what you meant by your reverse-discrimination
theory?)
> we already pretty much have perry in the form of my recollections
> & notes in previous messages
>
> but what more would you like to know
>
> perhaps i can provide it from memory too
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>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA